Warning: Two Way Traffic
I saw this at the college where we held SQLSaturday #49 on the restroom door. I’m not sure what to...
2010-10-29
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SQLAndy
SQLRally, Pre-Cons, and Taking Risks
Before I get into my thoughts, go vote! Here are the options this year for the SQLRally pre-cons:
BI Sessions: http://www.sqlpass.org/sqlrally/2011/PreConsforVotingBI.aspxDBA...
2010-10-29
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Bloggers-Don’t Blog About Spam!
Earlier this week I posted Bloggers, Quit Worrying About Spam, discussing what I felt was an over-focus on preventing spam...
2010-10-27
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Do You Have Other Opportunities Open?
Imagine you’re talking with a recruiter about a position that seems like a good fit and during that conversation they...
2010-10-27
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SQLSaturday National Blog Sponsors
With SQLSaturday #49 we tried something I call micro-sponsors, charging $5 for a blogger to sponsor the event. It’s a...
2010-10-26
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Bloggers, Quit Worrying About Spam
I don’t comment as often as I should on blog posts. I say should because as a blogger I know...
2010-10-25
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PASS 2011 Budget Posted
Bill Graziano posted our 2011 budget today. This runs from Jul 1, 2010, through Jun 30, 2011. I hope you’ll...
2010-10-22
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SQLSaturday #62 in Tampa on January 15, 2011
So far SQLSaturday Tampa will be the first SQLSaturday of 2011, and the first one I’ll be attending in 2011...
2010-10-22
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Review: All Things at Once by Mika Brzezinkski
One more from the ‘new book’ shelf at the library, All Things at Once is an auto biography of Mika...
2010-10-22
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Saying Thank You
I was just writing a thank you message to our speakers for SQLSaturday #49 and wanted to write down a...
2010-10-21
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers